Motivational Quotes

Love

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

- Calvino, Italo

Best Quotes about Love

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

10.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

11.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

12.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

13.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

14.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

15.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

16.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

17.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

18.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

19.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

20.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

22.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

23.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

24.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

25.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

26.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

27.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

28.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

29.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

30.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

31.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

33.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

34.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

35.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

36.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

37.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

38.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

39.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

40.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

41.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

42.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

43.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

44.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

45.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

46.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

47.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

48.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

49.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

50.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford